Windows Terminal is the name of the new application to use command-line tools on Windows 10, to then access the command prompt, Powershell or even the Linux bash that can be installed in Windows 10. With Windows Terminal, Microsoft has created a unique command line interface that can be used with each command line terminal, which has several important features such as tabbed view, customization, support for programming languages and scripts and much more.
The application is, for the moment, only available in a trial preview version, so it may have some limitations and lacks an easy-to-use settings menu, but otherwise it can already replace the command prompt and Powershell satisfactorily .
READ ALSO: Difference between Powershell and Windows Command Prompt
Windows Terminal can be downloaded and installed from Github or, in a simpler way, from the Microsoft Store with an automatic download and installation without technical difficulties. Windows 10 version 1903 or later is required to function.
Once installed, you can open it as an app from the Start menu and notice how it is a more beautiful and more evolved version of the old command prompt, with support for key combinations, for copying and pasting and various other functions. The best thing is the tab division, to open multiple terminals in the same window and keep them close at hand.
Other features are Unicode encoding system, support for UTF-8 characters, acceleration of text rendering via GPU, profiles for each open shell, customized themes and styles.
The settings can be opened by pressing the down arrow located at the top next to the +, where you can also open Terminal windows other than the command prompt, including Linux shells that have been installed from the Microsoft Store (such as Ubuntu for example ). Unfortunately, the settings are currently made up of a text file called profiles.json, which is not easy to edit if you are not a programmer.
READ ALSO: Guide to the Dos command prompt on Windows
The application is, for the moment, only available in a trial preview version, so it may have some limitations and lacks an easy-to-use settings menu, but otherwise it can already replace the command prompt and Powershell satisfactorily .
READ ALSO: Difference between Powershell and Windows Command Prompt
Windows Terminal can be downloaded and installed from Github or, in a simpler way, from the Microsoft Store with an automatic download and installation without technical difficulties. Windows 10 version 1903 or later is required to function.
Once installed, you can open it as an app from the Start menu and notice how it is a more beautiful and more evolved version of the old command prompt, with support for key combinations, for copying and pasting and various other functions. The best thing is the tab division, to open multiple terminals in the same window and keep them close at hand.
Other features are Unicode encoding system, support for UTF-8 characters, acceleration of text rendering via GPU, profiles for each open shell, customized themes and styles.
The settings can be opened by pressing the down arrow located at the top next to the +, where you can also open Terminal windows other than the command prompt, including Linux shells that have been installed from the Microsoft Store (such as Ubuntu for example ). Unfortunately, the settings are currently made up of a text file called profiles.json, which is not easy to edit if you are not a programmer.
READ ALSO: Guide to the Dos command prompt on Windows
